works as a sociologist of science at the Division for Science and
Innovation Studies in the Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck
Society in Munich (Germany). Since the late 1990s, he has been working on issues
in the promotion of young academics and scientists in the sciences and on
quality assurance in higher education. His current research interests include
research evaluation, peer review, bibliometrics, and altmetrics. He is a
member of the editorial board of Journal of Informetrics (Elsevier), PLOS ONE, Scientometrics (Springer), and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology (Wiley). Furthermore he is senior associate editor at International
Journal of Biomedical Science Editing (Kowsar)
and advisory editorial board member of EMBO Reports (Nature
Publishing group).

Since 2004, he has published
more than 160 papers in journals covered by Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science
with a total of more than 2300 citations. His h index amounts to 26
(the publication list and citation metrics are available at http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3926-2008).
Thomson Reuters (http://highlycited.com)
lists him among the most-highly cited researchers worldwide over the last ten
years.

Bornmann, L.
& Marx, W. (in press).Methods for the generation of normalized citation
impact scores in bibliometrics: Which method best reflects the judgements of experts? Journal of Informetrics <preprint>

Bornmann,
L. & Mutz, R. (in press). How well does a university perform in
comparison with other universities? The use of odds, and odds ratios, for the
comparison of institutional citation impact using the example of the Leiden
Rankings. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology <preprint>

Bornmann,
L. & Bauer, J. (in press). Which of the world's institutions employ the
most highly cited researchers? An evaluation of the data from
highlycited.com. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology <preprint>

Bornmann, L. & Mutz, R. (in
press). Growth rates of modern science: a bibliometric
analysis based on the number of publications and cited references. Journal of the Association
for Information Science and Technology <preprint>